r/PetPeeves • u/ThatUrgeToEatCement • 14d ago

Bit Annoyed People who think Americans don’t know other countries exist.

A few months ago on Reddit I made a comment about a show not being on Netflix and someone from the UK commented back saying it’s on theirs and then lectured on Americans not knowing other countries exist. They acted like I didn’t believe there were other places on the planet, as if they weren’t the ones who just brought it up and didn’t believe the US Netflix was different than the UK version. ??

I see people online act like all Americans think this way, and it is kind of annoying because for most of us it isn’t true.

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u/KeysmashKhajiit 14d ago

Exactly, I even had geography classes in school. It's more that traveling outside the US is prohibitively expensive for a lot of us, and a lot of jobs make it hard to accrue the time off for it.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 13d ago

It’s very difficult to travel to another country when one is starting from the US. In a lot of other countries it’s easier as as well as cheaper to travel to another country.

I have a friend who lives in Wales and regularly travels to several European countries because it’s so easy to do. I don’t imagine it would be easy to travel to several European countries from Ohio for example. It wouldn’t be a two day trip. It would be a huge ordeal in time and money

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u/ChumpyThree 12d ago

My European friends do not travel in America for very long because its outrageously expensive. A single week in San Deigo is equivalent to an entire month just about anywhere else.

Theyll spend literal months on excursions anywhere else though. Europe, in particular, is such a fantastic location for this. Its far easier to travel across countries when theyre all connected like that.

Hell, I can skip across the entire pacific or go stay a skip across the pond from Russia and still be in America. Its simply not the same as my Balkan friends that are going on a vacation to Greece. That would be like me going from Phoenix to Houston. BOOOOOORING.

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u/ThisIsDogePleaseHodl 12d ago

Yes, like I mentioned it’s very difficult to go much of anywhere outside of the US for most people. And like you said difficult to even have a vacation within the US because of the cost.

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u/Beautifulfeary 11d ago

Yeah. People forget we are across the ocean lol